Sunday 11 December 2016

Jio Effect on Airtel, Vodafone, Idea; Lenovo Phab 2 and LG V20 Launch; More News This Week

All leading telcos now have unlimited calling plans
The Lenovo Phab 2 launched this week at Rs. 11,999

The government is now offering incentives for online payments
Last week, Reliance Jio announced its Happy New Year Offer, extending its fully free access to users until March 31, 2017. It didn’t take long for the other telcos to respond, and Vodafone has announced a big rate cut in 4G prices - under Vodafone’s Double Data offer, users get 2GB of 4G data for the same price as the 1GB recharge used to be. You now get 2GB of data for Rs. 255, instead of just 1GB, and 3GB and 4GB recharge packs also doubled to 6GB and 8GB respectively.

This Vodafone offer is only for prepaid users in the Delhi circle, but all the telcos also rolled out unlimited calling plans to match Reliance Jio’s free calling offer.

Vodafone’s unlimited calling plans start at Rs. 149 for 28 days, Airtel’s unlimited calling starts at Rs. 145 for 28 days, and Idea is charging Rs. 148 for 28 days of unlimited calling - but only within the Idea network. On the other hand, Aircel’s unlimited calling costs Rs. 148, for 90 days. However, the actual plan is a little complicated, as you’re given unlimited calling only for Aircel-to-Aircel. The pack also includes 15,000 seconds (250 minutes) per month of free calling to any network, and 500MB of 2G data.

The exact rates you’ll have to pay to use these plans will depend on which telecom circle you’re living in, with small variations in pricing across the country. If you’re willing to pay extra, these packs also come with bundled 4G data - at Rs. 345 you get 1GB of data along with calls on Vodafone or Airtel, and on Idea you get the 1GB of data plus the unlimited calling gets extended to all networks.

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